AI & I · Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Sam Altman described his new 'Dot' feature, an AI agent working in the background, as a personal productivity tool that has helped him reclaim his mornings and mental space. He shared how it intelligently filters information and handles tasks, allowing for focused work and personal time.
“The Dots, the new thing we launched today, is the first thing that has given me back control of my mornings and my mental space in the mornings.”
“But now I trust my dot to go have good judgment about what I need to think about, not think about if there's something very urgent, otherwise handle things for me. And I get this space for kind of like creativity or to just hang out with my kids back.”
“Yeah. I mean, two, two things that happened today about that, um, during the The keynote, we had like a big seven production. This is the risk of live demos and trying to deploy many new features at once. I was recurring. So that happened. Tebow got a message from his dot five minutes before the demo saying, just to let you know, I see that you're in the Dev Day keynote. I know you were working on it. I know what the demo is because I was able to look at the presentation in space or whatever. And this set is probably going to make the demo not work.”